(The Facist year "XXI" was also the last year, by that reckoning, of Mussolini's dictatorship. So, for example, 1942 copies of this pistol made before October were marked XX, and those made after October were marked (like this one) with a XXI. That began in October of 1922, when Benito Mussolini, of the National Facist Party, became the ruler of the Kingdom of Italy-and within a year had powered that into a Dictatorship. The Roman numeral was another dating system-one showing the number of years since the beginning of Italy's Facist government. The 1942 date on it shows the conventional year, but there's also (see the last photo) a Roman Numeral XXI on it. This is a Beretta Model 1934 that was made between October and December of 1942. I finally got a chance to talk with the shop owner about it, and we worked out a deal that was satisfactory to both of us. I've had my eye on this one for a while now, but the price posted for it was a bit too high.
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